Did anyone get in on it? Been reading horror stories where people bought thousands of bitcoins for pocket change but lost them all through hard drive failure or simply forgetting about them / wallet passwords. Someone once paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas, worth €20m today

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Cabbage wrote:

:shock: Did anyone get in on it? Been reading horror stories where people bought thousands of bitcoins for pocket change but lost them all through hard drive failure or simply forgetting about them / wallet passwords. Someone once paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas, worth €20m today

I was having a drink last week in Dublin with a very clued in young Lady who I used to deal with in one of the banks. She is very blockchain/cryptocurrency savvie but she told me she liquidated her personal bitcoin position earlier this year having built a position over the past 3. Her net profit.....17 million Euros. I never got involved myself but I am starting to look at some similar avenues.

:shock: Did anyone get in on it? Been reading horror stories where people bought thousands of bitcoins for pocket change but lost them all through hard drive failure or simply forgetting about them / wallet passwords. Someone once paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas, worth €20m today

I was having a drink last week in Dublin with a very clued in young Lady who I used to deal with in one of the banks. She is very blockchain/cryptocurrency savvie but she told me she liquidated her personal bitcoin position earlier this year having built a position over the past 3. Her net profit.....17 million Euros. I never got involved myself but I am starting to look at some similar avenues.

Very impressive.

I'm biased but for now, in my humble opinion, eth is he only show in town. Bitcoin has the network going and I respect its contribution to the space but ethereum's potential is on another stratosphere. Ripple's rise makes no sense to me (what exactly is the value of XRP to merit this valuation?)

I'll keep an eye on others and their use cases (tezos, nem etc) but for now my entire position is eth and I don't foresee any substantial change soon.

:shock: Did anyone get in on it? Been reading horror stories where people bought thousands of bitcoins for pocket change but lost them all through hard drive failure or simply forgetting about them / wallet passwords. Someone once paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas, worth €20m today

I was having a drink last week in Dublin with a very clued in young Lady who I used to deal with in one of the banks. She is very blockchain/cryptocurrency savvie but she told me she liquidated her personal bitcoin position earlier this year having built a position over the past 3. Her net profit.....17 million Euros. I never got involved myself but I am starting to look at some similar avenues.

What a fail !So basically you're telling us you have no bitcoin, you met a master girl with millions in bank in a bar and you didn't even end in some red and gold hotel room urinating on her face ? Poor story really. And what about that rule that could have saved your miserable post ?

:shock: Did anyone get in on it? Been reading horror stories where people bought thousands of bitcoins for pocket change but lost them all through hard drive failure or simply forgetting about them / wallet passwords. Someone once paid 10,000 bitcoins for 2 pizzas, worth €20m today

I was having a drink last week in Dublin with a very clued in young Lady who I used to deal with in one of the banks. She is very blockchain/cryptocurrency savvie but she told me she liquidated her personal bitcoin position earlier this year having built a position over the past 3. Her net profit.....17 million Euros. I never got involved myself but I am starting to look at some similar avenues.

What a fail !So basically you're telling us you have no bitcoin, you met a master girl with millions in bank in a bar and you didn't even end in some red and gold hotel room urinating on her face ? Poor story really. And what about that rule that could have saved your miserable post ?

Oh sure, if you mean paper currency, but doesn't "traditional money" also include the dollars on my debit card, for instance? I guess what I'm asking is, how do the likes of Bitcoin and other digital currencies come into play in that regard?